


you won't have to re-enter your credentials unless you change your credentials (username, password) on GitHub.Once you have authenticated successfully, your credentials will be stored in the macOS keychain and will be used everytime you clone your GitHub repository This tells Git to use the osxkeychain credentials helper.Git config -global credential.helper osxkeychain You can tell Git to remember your credentials so that you don't have to enter your username and pw every time you clone a git repository by using a credential helper.This authentification process must pass before the cloning between local and remote repositories can be successfully completed.Git will prompt you to enter your GitHub username and password When you clone GitHub repositories using HTTPS, you will need to authenticate your credentials.Download the latest version of Git for Mac. So, the official release is taking precedence over the version from Apple, but the latest release is 2.2.1, so now, I need to update Git to the latest release. Now, when we type 'git -version', we see the message 'git version 2.0.1'. There are several ways to do this but as noted by they won't necessarily change the one used by Xcode just the command line version. If you want a newer git than the one in Xcode then you need to install it, this install should be to another place as if you update /usr/bin/git then an Apple update will overwrite this version.
